Substantial overlap between symptomatic and asymptomatic genitourinary microbiota states

Substantial overlap between symptomatic and asymptomatic genitourinary microbiota states

Abstract Background The lack of a definition of urinary microbiome health convolutes diagnosis of urinary tract infections (UTIs), especially when non-traditional uropathogens or paucity of bacteria are recovered from symptomatic patients in routine standard-of-care urine tests. Here, we used shotgu...

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Main Authors: Boahemaa Adu-Oppong, Robert Thänert, Meghan A. Wallace, Carey-Ann D. Burnham, Gautam Dantas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-01-01
Series:Microbiome
Subjects:
Genitourinary microbiome
Urinary tract infections
Clinical diagnostics
Dysbiosis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01204-9

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01204-9

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